What used to be considered pseudoscience by the scientific community but now isn’t?

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@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup

I remember that my old Doc Savage books derided chiropractic.

For a long time, many health plans I administered did not cover it either.

Chiropractic is still pseudoscience. It’s essentially only the massage part that’s useful, and that doesn’t rely on chiropractic theory.

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@Larry Mudd

First thing I thought of – some Doper who was a maintenance worker at a chiropractic office, who posted about an incident in which he warned one of these fellows not to get too close, because he had a wicked flu. I still think of the quack’s response everytime chiropractics comes up: I have this little movie that runs in my head of the guy drawing himself up and indignantly declaring “We don’t subscribe to the germ theory of disease here.”

Bwahahaha. Like I’d trust these people with my spine. Right.

Although I agree with you that some chiropractic claims are ludicrous, let me ask you something: Have you ever had sciatica?

Because I have, 3 or 4 years ago, and it was excrutiating. Four or five chiropractic treatments, and it has not recurred.

I don’t care what their fringe beliefs are, I know when I feel better.